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How many natural languages do you know?
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Loop, Endless, n.:
see Endless Loop.
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(Score: 5, Informative) by CoolHand on Friday May 05 2017, @02:38PM (8 children)
Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job-Douglas Adams
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Friday May 05 2017, @07:00PM
"Lady, I only speak two languages, English and bad English."
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 3, Insightful) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday May 05 2017, @08:21PM (2 children)
I'm Merican and I can manage five. Only know English well enough to speak it poorly on purpose though; the rest I speak poorly on accident. Honestly, I could manage as many as I found the time and desire to pick up. I doubt I'll ever excel at any but English though, as I have no plans on leaving the US (There's easily as much variety as there is Europe without ever having to stop speaking English) and you just can't become good at a language without needing to use it regularly for a while at least.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by archfeld on Monday May 15 2017, @06:02AM (1 child)
Does ASL count as one ? I have a friend who speaks very broken English and Chinese, but we can communicate fairly well in ASL. His mother is deaf, and I learned to sign in college to impress a girl of all things, but it stuck with me and has done me a world of good since then.
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(Score: 3, Funny) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday May 15 2017, @10:28AM
Sure, why not. I only know how to say "bullshit" and "asshole" in ASL, so I don't count it.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 06 2017, @12:32PM
Just one! Cuz I'm 'Murican!
Then that counts as just half! Sorry!
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 07 2017, @04:04PM (1 child)
What do you call someone who can speak 3 languages? Trilingual!
What do you call someone who can speak 2 languages? Bilingual!
What do you call someone who can only speak 1 language? British!
What do you call someone who can't even get 1 language right? American!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 25 2017, @09:03PM
As an American, I resemble that remark!!!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 14 2017, @08:22PM
Ooooh, using recursion to do factorials has always been my hobby: IF n>1 THEN n! = n(n-1)! ELSE n! = 1.
And you just added a new whole dimension to my favorite game, thanks!
1!!!!!!!! = 1!!!!!!! = 1!!!!!! = 1!!!!! = 1!!!! = 1!!! = 1!! = 1! = 1.